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Ecosystems, or communities of diverse participants who create greater value through sophisticated models of collaboration and competition, are complex and often confusing, but leaders who understand how to work within these dynamic and adaptive environments can attract passionate communities of participants and reap enhanced business value.

Core systems can be a jumping-off point for enterprise innovation, or the very thing that halts growth in its tracks. In this Tech Trends video, Mark White, CTO at Deloitte Consulting LLP, discusses the questions CIOs should ask themselves in pursuing the rebirth of core IT assets.

More organizations are turning to crisis simulations to test their ability to respond to unexpected events. When well-planned and executed, these exercises provide participants with a realistic sense of their roles and responsibilities during a crisis and help to reveal blind spots. Four organizations from different industries that have undertaken crisis simulations in recent years share lessons they’ve learned and benefits they’ve derived from the experience.

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Government agencies with core systems amassed over decades are finding that many of these assets cannot keep pace with advances in cloud, social, and mobile technologies. As such, public sector CIOs are grappling with various methods of revitalizing legacy systems, which can help them reduce costs, improve performance, and fuel new capabilities.

Enterprise core systems, often built over decades from disparate parts, can be unwieldy to manage, but they can also propel experimentation and growth. Leading organizations are reinventing their core as a strategic foundation to deliver data-based insights and innovation.

Core systems can be a jumping-off point for enterprise innovation, or the very thing that halts growth in its tracks. In this Tech Trends video, Mark White, CTO at Deloitte Consulting LLP, discusses the questions CIOs should ask themselves in pursuing the rebirth of core IT assets.

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Taking An Outside-In View of Architecture

Organizations that adopt outside-in thinking can enhance their ability to share information and outcomes with business partners – and even the public – to foster trust, gain insights, and spur ecosystem investment.

In today’s world of rapidly shifting markets and business conditions, many companies are discovering they need to mobilize third parties to add value. The traditional “need to own” mindset is giving way to “need to share.” As a result, solution architectures are shifting away from siloed, enterprise-centric designs. New architectures are designed to anticipate external dependencies with respect to services and people, and to allow data and systems to be accessed by third parties. Outside-in, not inside-out, is becoming the standard.

In this short video segment, John Hagel, co-chairman of Deloitte Center for the Edge, shares his views on outside-in architecture.

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